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From Commodity Discovery to Production
Khan, Tehmina S. - 2017
Major resource discoveries have transformed growth prospects for many low-income countries. However, the sharp downturn in commodity prices in recent years is affecting resource investment in these countries, and may delay the development of recent discoveries into production. This study...
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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
Enache, Maria - 2017
This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968717
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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda
Bundervoet, Tom - 2017
This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970754
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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications
Akyeampong, Emmanuel - 2017
growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974151
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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications -- Part I: The Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods
Akyeampong, Emmanuel - 2017
's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975271
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839626
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Egypt Beyond the Crisis : Medium-Term Challenges for Sustained Growth
Herrera, Santiago - 2017
The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976332
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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2020
This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and … integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter … trade share in Sub-Saharan Africa's gross domestic product would increase growth by 1.9 percentage points per year, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842774
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Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?
de la Torre, Augusto - 2017
This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of Latin America's globalization as compared with that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973335
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"Small Miracles"-- Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy : World Development Report 2015
Demeritt, Allison - 2017
One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972009